IUCN status: Near Threatened
EPBC Predator Threat Rating: High
IUCN claim: Not attributed
Rock wallaby remains were found in the catās diet (Doherty et al.Ā 2015).
Rock-wallaby remains were not found in the catās diet (Lapidge & Henshall 2001). Stobo-Wilson et al.Ā (2020b) reported that rock-wallabies were detected at 2 sites but not at the other 2 sites, and that cats were detected at all 4, but no statistical analysis was provided.
There are no studies evidencing a negative association between cats
and yellow-footed rock-wallaby populations.
Evidence linking Petrogale xanthopus to cats. Systematic review of evidence for an association between Petrogale xanthopus and cats. Positive studies are in support of the hypothesis that cats contribute to the decline of Petrogale xanthopus, negative studies are not in support. Predation studies include studies documenting hunting or scavenging; baiting studies are associations between poison baiting and threatened mammal abundance where information on predator abundance is not provided; population studies are associations between threatened mammal and predator abundance.
Current submission (2023) Scant evidence that introduced predators cause extinctions. Conservation Biology
Doherty, T.S., Davis, R.A., van Etten, E.J., Algar, D., Collier, N., Dickman, C.R., Edwards, G., Masters, P., Palmer, R. and Robinson, S., 2015. A continentalāscale analysis of feral cat diet in Australia. Journal of Biogeography, 42(5), pp.964-975.
EPBC. (2015) Threat Abatement Plan for Predation by Feral Cats. Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, Department of Environment, Government of Australia. (Table A1).
IUCN Red List. https://www.iucnredlist.org/ Accessed June 2023
Lapidge, S.J. and Henshall, S., 2001. Diet of foxes and cats, with evidence of predation on yellow-footed rock-wallabies (Petrogale xanthopus Celeris) by foxes in southwsetern Queensland. Australian Mammalogy, 23(1), pp.47-52.
Stobo-Wilson, A.M., Brandle, R., Johnson, C.N. and Jones, M.E., 2020. Management of invasive mesopredators in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia: effectiveness and implications. Wildlife Research, 47(8), pp.720-730.